Whitefish, Montana, rally held in solidarity with Jewish community
January 9, 2017
A rally was held in Whitefish, Montana, to show solidarity with the Jewish community, which has been targeted by a neo-Nazi website.
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Jared Kushner to be named Trump White House senior adviser
January 9, 2017
Jared Kushner, the Orthodox Jewish son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, will be named senior adviser to the president, Trump transition officials reportedly have confirmed.
Syria and the scandal of our Orthodox synagogues
January 9, 2017
“Lord of the Universe, I beg You to redeem Israel; but if You do not want to do that, then I beg You to redeem the gentiles.”— Rabbi Yisrael Hopstein, Maggid of Kozhnitz and legendary Chassidic leader in Poland (1733-1814) (1)
Across the US, 16 JCCs get bomb threats in a single day
January 9, 2017
Bomb threats were called in to at least 16 Jewish community centers and other institutions in seven states on Monday.
For black Jews, Obama represented an America of multiple identities
January 9, 2017
On Election Day 2008, Marcella White Campbell remembers her 4-year-old son playing in front of the TV, repeating the name of the man who would soon become the first African-American president of the United States.
Obama: ‘No basis in fact’ to accusations US orchestrated UN anti-settlements vote
January 9, 2017
Accusations that the United States orchestrated last month’s U.N. Security Council anti-settlements resolution have no basis in fact, President Barack Obama said.
Netanyahu thanks Congress, ‘America’ for House resolution condemning UN vote
January 6, 2017
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel thanked America and its House of Representatives for passing a resolution condemning a U.N. vote against settlements.
Israel to cut $6M funding to UN ‘anti-Israel bodies’
January 6, 2017
Israel will cut approximately $6 million of its annual contribution to United Nations’ bodies it deemed “anti-Israel,” following the passage by the U.N. Security Council of an anti-settlement resolution.
‘Stand up already,’ God is calling to you
January 6, 2017
Years before, when his brothers wanted to kill their egocentric younger brother Joseph, Judah stepped forward suggesting they instead throw Joseph in a pit.
Dr. Steinmeier’s disconnect
January 6, 2017
When Secretary of State John Kerry recently thundered that Israel could choose to be a Jewish state or a democratic state, but not both, he was enthusiastically supported by German Foreign Minister Walter-Frank Steinmeier.
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